The Algebra of Ice

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Lloyd Rose is a particularly good Who writer, who has published no other written fiction as far as I can tell (she has a non-fiction piece in a 2013 Sherlock Holmes anthology, and a couple of TV scripts). This is the last of her works that I have come to, having already greatly enjoyed The City of the Dead and Camera Obscura (and her audio play Caerdroia). I'm glad to say that I really enjoyed this as well; it starts with the death of Edgar Allan Poe, and from then on there are a lot of balls in the air: crop circles, weird ice, the Brigadier, the Riemann hypothesis, Ace having a fling with a brilliant mathematician, the Doctor as a partlially successful manipulator; also the flavours of both show more the last TV seasons and the first New Adventure novels inform the narrative and combine for a very tasty treat. I'm not completely certain that I can really tell you what the book was about, but it satisfied me on a lot of levels. show less

The first Doctor Who book I have read in a while, this was the 68th BBC Past Doctor Adventure by Lloyd Rose (a pen name of Sarah Tonyn) and starred the seventh doctor and Ace (two of my favourite characters). The supporting cast was very small including Ethan, a geeky maths boy and love interest of Ace's and Molecross, a Sci-Fi blogger/journalist . Essentially the baddies were mathematical entities looking to reverse, deny or stop entropy, but of course the Doctor outwitted them and everything was okay. This is actually a cracking read, well written and the story skips along. There is a minor (and completely unnecessary) role for UNIT in the story. I do own many of the PDAs and EDAs and will definitely be reading more of them this year, show more and I hope they are as good as this one. show less